ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Let's not beat about the bush, I am well and truly pissed off. Last week I reluctantly dug out and got rid of an Agapanthus that had become quite seriously infested with Agapanthus gall midge, causing its flower buds to become distorted or destroying them completely. There is no treatment available, as far as I…
Our garden is plagued by slugs. I could just ignore them and eventually nature would control their numbers. The problem is that the means by which that plays out is that the slugs gorge themselves on all the plants that they love, like the emerging shoots of Dahlias and Salvias, to the point where those…
There seem to be a growing number of 'gardeners' who are happy to leave 'nature' to take its course in their gardens. They are happy, or at least prepared, to put up with the damage wrought by slugs and snails, want dandelions to be regarded as desirable wild flowers and eschew the use of any…
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